Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-30
THE CABLES OF THE WORLD.
An Interesting Map Of the Principal Lines of Tclecraphic Communication

An Interesting Map Of the Principal
 Lines of Photographic Communication.
 have a chart issued by the hydrosraphic oiiice of tho United States navy, in which arr shown the submarine cables of the world With the Sea coast stations and the principal connecting land lines. It is an interesting map to any one, and I've no doubt of great value to many. In fact. l should imagine it would make one of the most important charts that mariner could have in his collection. Besides showing the locations oi the lines a table of international rates is also given. The conversation 10 which had been a listener. you may De sure, started me on a fresh in- NeShgit.on of my chart. Let us take a glance at it together.
 The United States, of;course, is well ribbed with wires, three lines of which stretch from th' Atlantic Co the Pacific coast, or at least practically so. Then there are two running rom the extreme north To the Gulf. while another skirts the Pacific coast Mexico has number of lines, while the West Indies aI,- pear Co lasS nothing in this respect Both coasts Os South America as far down ns Pata- gOnia have telegTaphic communication with the rest of the world, while running into Brazil from Lisbon, Portugal. there Is a rair of 1NAA-AeAA AaAAAtn AfAiA NAA hslON IUtrN Were as many as ten cables connecting the new and the old Worlds' They don't run directly across, either. The couple which bring Sf. Pierre, on this side, and Brest, France, together sweep down us far south as the lati- tudc e; New York. or course you under stand that iE laying submarine cables tl,. t,-l of the ocean is first carefully considered.
 Europe i> cr''s>ssi and recrossei, while from -H.r-5-. ..f.. coast extends a lonely line of wire Siberia k as hare of poles and wire as the ayerace old genilrman's head k of hair. Sp k the greater portion of northern and western Russia, the whole of interior China anl Africa, British America nnj Alaska, and, of courSe, Greenland and Iceland. Australia has sevcral lines of wire running i,s length. one of which comes clear from the north. where the cable from British India emerge. from is waicry bed. down c. Tasmania SuppoSe, now, a California merchant wnnf. to telegraph 6 correspondent in New Zealau,I That isn't so far geographically speaking, but from a telcsraphic point of view it |, far in the distance. The California man would send lis message something like this: He w0uli s:Hrt it arrosS the continent, where it would iake journey under water. I,. fasIeI through Europe, again under water in the Mediterranean S-a, through the Suez canal. acruss ln;ia, under thc Bay of Bengal, the Java sea, piece of the Indian ocean and finally C. the operator at Palmer,t1n. Aus tralia- He Nuuli start it acro-, that cou.i- mental i,laul Co sydney. where it would take another bath. tui, time in the Pacific ucaan, and finally |: would Ie delivered to the m1u Co 'vh5r, It was ailres-.d The m.,sa.. on. which Pr.iler', murderer. Maxwell, was ap- rreheudcd. took something like this route from SL Louis You r-memt-.r he had taken steamer from California Co New Zealanl.- .Observer- in IhIladelulia Can